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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL RUMPFF, or APRATH, NEAR ELBERFELD, PnUssIA, GERMANY.

MANUFACTUREOF DYE-STUFF OR COLORING-MATTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,380, dated April 11, 1882.

Application filed January 13, 1882. (No specimens.) Patented in England March 21, 1881, in France March 31, 1881, in Belgium April 15, 1881, and in Germany October 11, 188i.

salt of my alpha-monosulphonic acid of betanaphthol.

The preparation andproperties of my alphavmonosulphonio acid of beta-naphthol, and also of its sodium salt, are described in my application for patent filed April 8, 1881.

I prepare my new dye-stuff as follows: I dissolvefifty kilograms of the monosulphon ie acid of the amidoazo-benzole in five hundred liters of water, to which the necessary quantity of ammonia has been added, and cool the mixture to about 5 centigrade. To the cooled mixture I add eighty kilograms of muriatiev acid and fifty kilograms of pure nitrite of soda of one hundred per cent. strength, and then I allow the whole to stand at rest for several hours, when the transformation into dia'zoazobenzole will have been completed. In the next,

preferably in the form of its soda salt, although other similar salts of my new acid may be used, dissolved in five hundred liters of Water to which had been added one hundred and forty kilograms of ammonia of ten per cent. strength. The new colorin g-matter isimmediatel yformed, as shown by the following equation Monosulphonic acid of diazoazo-benzole.

Sodium salt of beta-naphthol. Alpha-monosulphonic acid.

CGHA NINCGH4 NINCmHs New coloring-matter.

Witnesses:

J. FEED. KEDENBURG, J. BooK. 

